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Forms authentication is a great approach if you want to roll your own authentication system using a back-end database and a custom login page. But what if you are creating a web application for a smaller set of known users who already have Windows user accounts? In these situations, it makes sense to use an authentication system that can leverage the existing user and group membership information.
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© 2009 Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta, and Vidya Vrat Agarwal
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(2009). Windows Authentication. In: Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1631-5_22
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